How To Write Headlines That Gets More Shares

Do you write titles but that never give you a chance to stand out? Certainly, the key ingredient that you’re missing is “emotion”.

Writing irresistible title is a skill as well as a challenge to mentally attract people. When it comes to hacking readers mind, the thing that will merely help you is “emotion”.

Nope, I’m not the only person saying. CoSchedule has proved that posts with a higher number of social shares frequently reaches a score of 30-40 in Emotional Marketing Value (EMV).

An emotionally attractive title will increase click-through rate, organic reach and pour the quality to stand out among hundreds of them!

Let’s weight in the topic by a question. What do you think, when someone will decide to read your post?

Your answer might be, “If I have valuable content, readers will surely peep out”. It’s true but in one condition. To determine a post is valuable or not, someone has to scan it first. But how would you convince him to do that?

If you’re not a popular face on the industry, people will not bother to explore you. What if someone has very short time and need to guess it valuable or not on the first eye-contact? What would you do then?

The solution is a title that will emotionally convince people to click on. Whether you are popular or not, an appealing blog title will always send an invitation that someone can barely avoid.

So now comes the main question “how”? Here in this post, I will help you drive from “aha” to “oh shit” of writing a headline sequentially.

How To Write Headlines That Gets More Shares

Think Your Approach

Without an approach, a title is like a boat without oars, what can’t go far in the right direction. So in the first part of this process, you have to ask yourself two questions:

1. What will you write?
2. For whom will you write?

The first question depends on your taste what will decide the title. You may write from anything to everything. However, you can develop your approach by focusing on the following points:

• People love to see contents on new topics rather than rehashed
• People love to know more about the trends
• People love to see contents that add to their experience

The second question is to know who is your target audience. A title can be called successful when it will persuade the following three types of readers:

1. Regular blog readers
2. Social media fans
3. Search engine users

So wrapping all up, you have to choose a suitable topic and make an approach to writing title such way that will convince all type of audiences.

Brainstorm Ideas

Next, you can weld the topic in your brain. Digging into related suggestions you will get a fair idea of what to write and how to make the title even better.

You can perform the brainstorming in the following two methods. I bet, after that, you will come along at least a few important things that you will want to include in your content, so in your headline.

Title generators

The best thing about the generators is that they will suggest you what to write and what will be the fittest title for that.

Here are a few tools you can use to generate ideas. Input your subject and they will show you the magic.

Pick A Suitable Template

Based on your brainstorming, you will need to select a template for your title. TwelveSkip published a beautiful infographic of 74 clever post title templates.

Picking one of them is a win-win for creating an irresistible title. Thus, it will save a great deal of time. Isn’t it a way better choice?

For this post, I used the template: 12. How to ____ The Right Way. Then I changed it to my requirements.

Write Down Your Title

Despite picking one of the templates, I’m pretty sure a bunch of more related ideas will wander around your mind. You might feel in trouble how to pick up the best one of them?

So here is the quickest solution:

Draft Three Random Titles

Whatever is coming into your mind, just open up a notepad and write down three of them serially. They all have areas of potentials. So it is ideal to leverage them all.

For instance, when I started writing, the following three titles began to appear in mind:

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How To Write Headlines That Gets More Shares

Cut and combine them into one

After that, cut and combine these three into one. Your focus should be on keeping the three’s value into one without increasing the length.

In my case, I came to this title from the previous step. You can see I tried not to hurt the three of them’s value.

How To Write Headlines That Gets More Shares

Make It Short, Clear And Accurate

Everyone loves short and interesting titles. Short titles weight on a particular topic and also looks appealing. So a perfect blog post title should be short, clear to the subject and 100% accurate to the post content.

But your question might be “how short?” and “what to cut off?”. So here is the answer:

• Your title should better to be between 60 characters based on the average length of titles.
• You can cut off fewer necessary conjunctions, auxiliary verbs or use short synonyms to minimize the length.

For instance, from the title I selected in the previous step, I can remove the conjunction “that” what will make no big difference. I could remove “will” but it emphasizes on the topic. So I kept it. Here is the outcome:

How To Write Headlines That Gets More Shares

Add Emotional Marketing Value (EMV)

Here comes the main part of “emotional marketing”. Cause we already mentioned in the starting and so here once again, an emotional value in a title is the key what will enforce viewers to click on it.

Now a bunch of questions might be appearing in your mind. Such as how to check emv score, what is the recommended score and how to earn that score.

Don’t worry, here we will go through two tools that will check emv and help you improve the emotional value.

This tool is based on Dr. Hakim Chishti’s (a U.S. government research scholar) study back in the 60s and 70s. He found sometimes meaning can be mistaken, and the sound tones are interpreted the same way by emotion.

So the emotional language creates a very predictable response and often very advantageous in marketing. This tool will analyze that value and give it a score which is called EMV.

It’s stated most professional copywriters will score between 30.00%-40.00%. And some gifted copywriters can make the score between 50.00%-75.00%.

In the image below, you can see changes of a few words increased the score significantly. However, I still kept the low one to maintain the word balance (you will know more about it in the next paragraph).

Please note that EMV score between 30.00%-40.00% is perfect and standard for all. Your target should be getting between them. Or higher is even better.

CoSchedule – Headline Analyzer

Here comes another very useful tool by CoSchedule. It will analyze your title to check word balance, length, sentiment, and keyword. It will give you an overall score of 100.

A perfect emotional title should score around 70 and maintain a word balance of A+. The best thing about this tool is “the word balance” and that is what you should care about.

To get an A+ and also a good score, you will need to include at least one word of each category. Here are the four types of the word you should include to improve your score.

Keep SEO in mind

People think of seo that it will increase visibility in search. But most of them never thought it is for serving better user experiences.

Nope, you don’t have to be the Rand Fishkin to do seo, neither anyone can be. You just have to be who you are and learn the fundamentals of seo. As of now, here are the initial things you should care.

• You should find a potential keyword for your title through researching. It will help you gain more search exposures.
• Keyword placed in close to the title starting has more importance than the bottom.
• You title length should be between 512px in width. Otherwise, the rest will get cut from Google search results.

To check the keyword placement and the width of your post title, you may use the Moz Title Preview Tool, so as I do.

Finalizing blog title

Last but not least, a professional touch will make your blog titles more click-worthy. You should proofread your title and leave no stone unturned to hack readers mind.

So my advise it, take a quick look at the compact guide to English grammar and compare with your title.
Another error we often make in titles is capitalization. We do what, capitalize the first letter of all title words or lowercase all except the first letter of the first word. Unfortunately, both are incorrect.

The correct rule is: the first and last word, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and subordinate conjunctions should be capitalized and rest lowercased.

Final Words

The title is the next big thing in the clickbait world. The more your title clickbaity, the more you get traction, shares, engagement.

You can certainly attract more people to click and read your article by adding some emotions. Yeah, emotion is the language of the heart that no one can easily refuse.

What’s your opinion, how do you manage to write blog post titles that will look so appealing that even your malevolence cannot resist?